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Esprit d’escalier
In 2011, at a student café in Grenoble, I heard a guy argue that making the bed was pointless because you’re just going to unmake it later that day. Today I figured out what to reply. “Do you poop?” “Yes.” “Do you wipe your ass after?” “Yes.” “Hypocrite.”
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Real housemen of Windsor castle
My wife is being subjected to Henry David’s Spare for a book club. From what I’ve been told it is the uneventful story of an unbelievably privileged man whose greatest, and only, adversity in life is that the British press doesn’t love him unconditionally. Mr. David has been on a long media tour this season, […]
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6:07
“Hug attack!” my son yells before cannonballing knees-first into my ribs as I lie in bed, in a move that was definitely more attack than hug.
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Groff
Some nerds are out there claiming old-timey typesetting tools like man, mdoc, {g,n,t}roff and such are great, actually, and we should use them for things like CVs and blogs and research papers. I used to work in scientific publishing as a copy editor, toiling away in the LaTeX mines of academia, and have had strong […]
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A memory called empire, by Arkady Martine
An ambassador from a small space station arrives in the capital of the next-door empire, full of emotionless poets and subtle meanings. Her predecessor was murdered and the techno-thingy that makes her special fails on the first day so she can only rely on her wits and friends, every one a loyal subject of said […]
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Thanks cmake
While trying to package a project at work into an RPM I get the error: My question to the cmake developers is: Why the fuck do you people not just fucking deal with this?
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Targeted advertising
I have an ad-blocker extension on my browser, another one specifically for YouTube ads, and run my own DNS server in The Cloud with a denylist of ad company IP addresses. I do not want to see ads online, ever, and have a special hatred for targeted ads, where a cabal of companies have conspired […]
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If I were a migrant worker who had died building the World Cup stadiums I would simply matter more than an arm band
The football fans in my Twitter feed are upset that various teams playing in Qatar have backed down from their plans of wearing rainbow arm bands in solidarity with LBGTQ+ people. I’ve been trying to point out that this is not surprising from anyone involved, as to be there in the first place they had […]
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Memento Moridomo
We’re excited to announce the launch of our new product, the Memento Moridomo. Combining the grandeur of having a slave whisper that you, too, will die in your ear at moments of your greatest triumphs with the modern convenience of an alarm clock, our revolutionary innovation reminds you of your impending death at regular 25-minute […]
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